What does “parsed as a string mean?”
So “parsing” or “parsed” means to make something understandable. For programming this is converting information into a format that’s easier to work with. So the phrase “parsed as a string” means we are taking the data from the csv file and turning it into strings. This is important in that we now have a long string and will need to convert it if we want to utilize the numbers within it.
The exercise also references a parsing library, which has rules built in to perform the parsing of something, in this case different types of files.
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